Notice Things

Of course, you know about your senses. You use them to take notice of what’s going on around you. Your brain constantly receives information from them, which causes you to do something. Or nothing.

If your hand gets too close to a hot surface like a stovetop, you pull it away. If a parent asks you to tidy your room, you might do nothing because tidying your room isn’t cool, right?

Besides, you know where everything is, why tidy it?

Our senses notice hundreds (maybe thousands) of things each day. The messages travel along pathways called nerves to our brains. Information processing is what human brains were designed to do. We developed them over thousands of years of trying out new things.

Take a moment to thank all the humans who lived before you, especially the cave people from long ago. Without them, we may not have become what we are today.

Humans have always wanted to learn about things. Our learning never stops. We learn things by ourselves, in groups, and from one another.

Some brain scientists believe there is no limit to how much our brains can learn. So, tune in with those senses, even if you don’t have them all, and keep learning.